Mikhail Malyshev

Mikhail Malyshev
Михаил Малышев
Born
Mikhail Yuryevich Malyshev

(1965-10-31)31 October 1965
Perm, Perm Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR (present-day Perm Krai, Russia)
Died19 December 2025(2025-12-19) (aged 60)
Perm, Russia
Other names"The Perm Cannibal"
ConvictionsMurder x2
Rape x2
False imprisonment x2
Cannibalism x2
Animal cruelty
Criminal penalty25 years imprisonment, with two years time served
Details
Victims2–8
Span of crimes
1997–1998
CountryRussia
StatePerm
Date apprehended
1998

Mikhail Yuryevich Malyshev (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Малышев; 31 October 1965 – 19 December 2025), known as the Perm Cannibal (Russian: Пермский людоед), was a Russian murderer, cannibal and possible serial killer who was convicted of murdering, dismembering and eating the remains of two acquaintances in the city of Perm between 1997 and 1998. He was also suspected of six similar murders for which he was never charged. Malyshev was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment but was released in 2022, and later lived in Perm.